Cigar or cigarette holder



(ModeL) A. G. MORRISON.

v CIGAR 0R CIGARETTE HOLDER. No. 578,652. Patented Mar. 9, 1897.

WITNESSES INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR CLEVELAND MORRISON, OF UNIONTOWN, KENTUCKY.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,652, dated March 9, 1897.

Application filed April 21, 1896. Serial No. 588,458. (ModeL) T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR CLEVELAND MORRISON, of Uniontown, in the county of Union and State of Kentucky,have invented a new and Improved Cigar or Cigarette Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to holders for cigars or cigarettes capable of being held by one finger of the hand, thus enabling a person to use both hands and still have the holder and attached cigar or cigarette carried by one of them. Under this construction of a holder it is not necessary to keep the cigar or cigarette in the month if both hands areemployed, and therefore the eyes and the lungs will not be affected by the smoke leaving the tip of the cigar or cigarette, and at any time desired the cigar or cigarette may be carried to the mouth and a puff taken therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to construct a holder of the above character which will be simple, durable, and economic.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, illustrating the holder applied to a cigarette; and Fig. 3 is a rear view of the holder, the cigarette being in place therein. In the form of the invention shown the holder has a base A, a body B, and clamp? ing-arms C. All of these parts are preferably formed from a single piece of springwire of any description. The base A is approximately triangular, embodying a crossbar 10 and side bars 11, which converge at their rear ends. By means of this construction the holder may be rested in an upright position to prevent damage being done by the fire on the cigarette. An upright 12 is carried from the rear end of each side bar of the base, forming the bottom portion of the body, and these uprights are brought together at their upper ends, whereby the aforesaid uprights have a considerable space between their lower extremities. The material of the holder is continued horizontally from the upper portions of the uprights 12 in parallel lines in a forwardly direction, forming the top or horizontal bars 1 3 of the body, and vertical arms 14 are projected upward from the extremities of the horizontal bars of the body, and each arm terminates at its upper end in an eye 15, the inner faces of the said eyes being usually concaved, as shown in Fig. 3.

The cigar or cigarette is held between the eyes 15 of the holder, and when the cigar or cigarette is not in the mouth a finger of the hand may he slipped between the base and the horizontal bars of the body of the device, which will cause the holder to remain on the fingerthe forefinger, for example-leaving the tip of the finger and the other fingers of the hand free to be brought into action for work or other use.

It will be observed that where the upper ends of the uprights 12 of the body come together they form a fulcrum for the uprights, since by pressing the uprights together at their wider or lower ends the jaws or eyes 15 of the arms will be forced apart, enabling the cigar or cigarette to be readily introduced between them or removed, as found necessary or desirable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A cigarette-holder, formed of a length of spring-wire, the middle portion of which is bent and spread transversely to form a base Whereon the holder may rest, and each end portion of the wire being bent upwardly and then horizontally, the horizontal portions normally running approximately parallel to each other, and the extremities of the wire being bent upwardly from the horizontal portions and respectively curved to form eyes for holding the cigarette, substantially'as described.

ARTHUR CLEVELAND MORRISON.

Witnesses:

T. J. WILLIAMS, M. G. WEYER. 

